'Concerned' coroner links four teen suicides to violent video game Call of Duty

WARNING: John Pollard has expressed his concern that the game has featured in some of his cases [CAVENDISH]

John Pollard said yesterday it “concerned him greatly” that the game – featuring soldiers’ gruesome deaths – had featured in so many cases he had presided over.

In the latest, brilliant grammar school pupil William Menzies, 16, who was “always playing” the 18-rated game, suffocated himself with a plastic bag.

Two years ago Callum Green, 14, hanged himself after playing Call Of Duty with his stepfather.

The game has also been linked to the deaths of two unnamed teenagers Mr Pollard probed.

William’s family wept as Mr Pollard recorded a suicide verdict and said: “I have to say, and this is after three or four inquests into the deaths of teens, the Call Of Duty game seems to be figuring in recent activity before death.

"It concerns me greatly.

"I suspect, but I don’t know because I don’t have enough evidence, that William may have been experimenting.”

TRAGIC: William and Callum both played Call of Duty [CAVENDISH]

“I have to say, and this is after three or four inquests into the deaths of teens, the Call Of Duty game seems to be figuring in recent activity before death”